South Africa (nation)
Found in 3622 Collections and/or Records:
The Cliffs, Umkomaas River, Natal [i.e. KwaZulu-Natal], 1899
201 x 150 mm. A view looking down onto a curve in the Umkomaas River, with sheer cliffs topped by dense forest on the left hand bank.
The Club, Durban, 1916-05
137 x 86 mm. Monochrome post card (original print) dated in Bell's hand 'May 1916'.
The Club, Graaff Reinet, 1880 - 1889
321 x 185 mm. A view from the street showing the single storey flat roofed building, with two groups of men watching the photographer from the stoep, roofed in decorative ironwork. With Spandau Kop in the background. The Graaff Reinet club was established in 1876; the building seen here in Church Square which still serves as the clubs's premises, was built in 1881.
The Colonel and the widow, 1902
The Colonel rests, 1902
The Colours of the 94th Regt and 2.21st Royal Scots Fusiliers-trooped in the Garrison Square, Pretoria after ‘Bronkhorst Spruit’, 1880 - 1881
190 x 141 mm. Showing the colours of the 94th Regiment and 2nd Battalion of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers placed in front of a tent in the camp at Pretoria. The colours were saved after the disastrous opening hostilities of the war in the engagement at Bronkhorst Spruit (December 20 1880).
The Commanding Officers of the Cape Town Volunteers, 1960 - 1980
114 x 140 mm. Group portrait of Colonel Eustace, Captain Porter, Colonel Dupray and Colonel Tucker. Various handwritten annotations, in both ink and pencil, can be found on the reverse of the print. Photograph by Arthur Green.
The common bushbuck (Natal), 1920 - 1929
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.
The common waterbuck (Zululand), 1920 - 1929
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.'
The Convent Redoubt and Jail Laager from Mr. Van der Veen’s House, 1880 - 1881
190 x 143 mm. A view looking across cleared ground (with a few cattle and an unidentified figure standing beside a camera and tripod in the foreground) towards the main concentration of defensive forces in Pretoria. Various locations keyed and identified in the photograph are: A. The Military Camp (background, right of centre); B. Fort Commeline (at the summit of the distant hills); C. Loretto Nuns, Convent (sandbagged building at right); D. The Tronk (Jail) Laager (at left).
The Corner House, Johannesburg, 1925
202 x 151 mm. Showing the exterior of the Corner House from the Commissioner Street side. This building was the third Corner House, the centre of the South African mining industry, and was constructed between 1903-1905.
‘The corner shop', 1950 - 1970
152 x 205 mm. ‘The corner shop in which the first artillery shell landed on the day of the bombardment'.
The Dam at Lake Arthur. It holds up 156,000 million gallons, is1640 ft long & 107 ft above the river bed. The lake covers an area of 4 sq. miles, 1928-06-22
Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.
The defassa waterbuck (British East Africa), 1920 - 1929
Collection of monochrome postcards printed in collotype showing stuffed animals in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg. Accompanying the postcards is a four page printed leaflet by the Director of the Natal Museum, Ernest Warren, dated April 1924 and entitled 'The need for the International protection of the African fauna.' All photographs by C Akerman except no. 73, which is by 'F. Teschner'.
The 'Disa' Graudiflora (red); the Table Mountain orchid, 1910
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
The Drift, Caledon River , 1902
The Embarkation, 1860
200 x 135 mm. Photograph of the painting by T. Baines.
The ‘Emma and ‘Adalina’ nuggets, 1873 - 1879
156 x 76 mm. Showing the two nuggets with the following inscription written beneath on the negatives:
Natural size. The ‘Emma’ 16 and a half onz. The ‘Adalina’ 22 and a half onz 17 and a half dwt.
Nuggets from ‘New Caledonia’ Lydenburg Gold Fields. These two nuggets were found by a man named Potgieter in a crack in a boulder, and it is reputed that they formed part of the gold sent to London by Burgers to mint his sovereigns. Probably by H. Ferdinand Gros.
The engine of our train at Artesia, 1928-07-06
The small wheels enable it to pull long heavy trains up steep gradients. The electric generator is just behind the head lamp.
The Exchange, Barberton, 1888
193 x 124 mm. Showing a large group around the step of the Transvaal Share and Claim Exchange, a single storey corrugated iron building run by the Trust and Agency Company Limited.
The famous Marine Drive which encircles the Cape Peninsula - in extent 95 miles, 1925
203 x 152 mm. A view looking along the road which follows the seashore around the Cape Peninsula. The photograph probably shows the Victoria Road in the Camps Bay area.
The First Transvaal Parliament, 1907
A poster of the members of the Legislative Assembly of the First Transvaal Parliament, a supplement to 'The Weekly Star'. In the centre of the poster is a photograph of the House of Assembly. This is surrounded by photographs of the seventy members, including General L. Botha, Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture.
The floor employees at their mid-day meal, 1891
198 x 151 mm. Showing a large group of miners seated on the ground at their mid-day meal with a barrel of drinking water in their midst and mine buildings in the background.
The Floors - Loading ‘Blue’ for the washing machines, 1891
208 x 153 mm. Showing gangs of Africans, under the eye of a supervisor, loading diamondiferous soil into metal trolleys for transportation to the washing machines (see Y3059C/21).